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Tushar Mountain draba

Draba ramulosa

Also called Tushar Mountain Whitlowgrass

Tushar Mountain draba
Photo: David Tait, USFS employee per [1], Public domain
Family
Brassicaceae (Cabbage family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Utah
Climate
subalpine or subarctic

About

Draba ramulosa is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae known by the common names Mt. Belknap draba and Tushar Mountain draba. It is endemic to Utah, where it is known only from Mt. Belknap in the Tushar Mountains in Beaver and Piute Counties.

This small plant has creeping, hairy branches forming a mat of grayish herbage. The gray-green leaves are up to a centimeter long. The inflorescence is a raceme of up to 15 flowers. Each flower has pale yellow petals 3 or 4 millimeters long. Blooming occurs in June through August. The fruit is a flattened oval silique.

Other Draba plants

Yellow whitlow-grass · Slender draba · Alpine draba · Draba aretioides · Rough draba · Lake Tahoe draba · Mt. Lassen draba · Draba bertiscea · Cushion draba · Snowbasin draba · Draba cacuminum · California draba

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Draba ramulosa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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